[yooper]

I have been an avid Toast fan for years and see the latest release offers some pretty cool features. 

To sum it up..

HD and BD authoring-
The new HD/BD plug-in for Toast 9 gives users the ability to author high definition video content on to Blu-ray, or even standard DVD discs! Take high-def video footage from AVCHD camcorders, TiVo and EyeTV and create Blu-ray discs that can be played on any standard Blu-ray set top box or Playstation3 game console. Did you invest in HD DVD? The HD/BD Plug-in even supports HD DVD formats and disc players.

Audio fingerprinting-
New audio fingerprint technology fills the blanks for you!
Now you can easily identify and tag music tracks recorded from LP, tape or Internet or all those unknown tracks in your library. Song names, artists, genres and more are just a click away! No more "track_01" on your iPod!

Good news indeed!  Now I can finally salvage some of the hard drive space from my HD Tivo.  I have some great HD material that I never wanted to get rid of, now I can..Yipee!

Linky... http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/toast/titanium/overview.html

Mark

[Crimson]

I've never used Toast, but this Audio Fingerprinting feature is intriguing. If you wouldn't mind reporting back on how well it works, I'd appreciate it. I still have a ton of tagless files that I'm too lazy to edit, and this just might do the trick.

[simon wagstaff]

One problem I have always had with toast is when I am buring 24/48 and 24/96 audio files onto a DVD the tracks never stay in order on playback, they always jump around. I use Audio DVD creator on my PC and don't have this problem.

anybody else experience this and/or have any suggestions? I don't seem to be able to get any help from Roxio on this.

[Toka]

I too am interested in the fingerprinting technology...I used to work for a company that did just that sort of thing. Wonder how similar it is...or maybe the same thing? 

[ferenc_k]

I tried the audio fingerprinting with few cd, where the audio was digitized from an LP. It worked perfectly well, with two Chase and one Billie Holiday LPs. It seems you have to get the right number of tracks (segments) if you digitize the whole LP as A nad B side so you have two tracks, it does not work. If you segment the recroding and got the roght numbers of tracks and the length of the tracks roughly right, it worked.

[Crimson]

I tried the audio fingerprinting with few cd, where the audio was digitized from an LP. It worked perfectly well, with two Chase and one Billie Holiday LPs. It seems you have to get the right number of tracks (segments) if you digitize the whole LP as A nad B side so you have two tracks, it does not work. If you segment the recroding and got the roght numbers of tracks and the length of the tracks roughly right, it worked.

Thanks for the feedback. I'm looking to identify CD tracks ripped to WAV eons ago. They're all mixed up and I wonder if this'll do the trick.

[yooper]

I still have not upgraded to 9 yet, but will tonight or tomorrow.  I have a couple demo cd's that I received from an audio get together which are recorded in WAV and are on my hard drive.

I'm anxious to see how it will handle various artists and will report my findings.

Mark